The most significant moment for me in high school was when I was awarded the Honors English 10 Student of the Year Award. It was then that I decided that I wanted to become an English teacher.

Tell us one thing about yourself that would surprise people:

I was six weeks old and living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on April 19, 1995 when the terrible tragedy of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building occurred. Although I did not personally lose anyone close to me, some of my personal paperwork (my social security application, my birth certificate, and my parent's marriage license) were destroyed as this was the same building that housed the Social Security Administration.